A free pattern from Knitting Daily

for felted hearts.

Finished Size: About 2 inches (5 cm) high
and 2 inches (5 sm) wide Yarn: Sportweight (#2 Fine). Shown here: Brown Sheep Nature Spun Sportweight (100% wool, 184 yd/[168 m] 50 g).
Each heart uses less than 10 yards (9.1 m).
Needles: Size U.S. 6, straight or circular
Notions: Tapestry needle, small amount of
polyester or bamboo fiberfill
Gauge: About 21 stitches and 30 rows = 40 inches (10 cm) in stockinette stitch, before felting. Exact gauge is not crucial for this project.

Short-row 1: (RS) K8, wrap next st, turn.
Short-rows 2, 4, and 6: Purl to last st, p1f&b—1 st increased.
Short-row 3: (RS) K7, wrap next st, turn—13 stitches.
Short-row 5: (RS) K6, wrap next st, turn—14 stitches.
Short-row 7: (RS) K5, wrap next st, turn—15 stitches.
Short-rows 8 and 10: Purl.
Short-row 9: K4, wrap next st, turn.
Short-row 11: K3, wrap next st, turn.
Short-rows 12, 14, and 16: Purl to last 2 sts, p2tog.
Short-row 13: K5, working wraps together with wrapped sts when you come to them, wrap next st, turn—14 sts rem.
Short-row 15: K6, working wraps together with wrapped sts when you come to them, wrap next st, turn—13 sts rem.
Short-row 17: Knit to end, working wraps together with wrapped sts when you come to them—12 sts.
Short-row 18: Purl.

Finishing

Yes it’s Jackie with a beautiful cowl featured in CowlGirls book and it truly is called True Brit. Their description is a “shoulder-hugging ponchette with a snug fitting gaiter collar.” Whatever you want to call it, it is positively elegant. Jackie used two colors of Debbie Bliss Andes yarn, an incredibly soft alpaca yarn.

Because of the thickness/softness of the alpaca yarn, she changed the moss stitch to a double moss stitch and you can see that it really gave it the texture it needed.

The gaiter part almost looks like a cable but isn’t. It’s a combo of yarn overs and slip sts.

You will agree I’m sure that this is a beautiful cowl.

Melody yarn and Swirl Shawls

Carole brought her swirl shawls she completed recently into the shop and they are so excellent I wanted to share her accomplishments. Keep in mind that each is knitted with a single colorway of Melody yarn.

Carole changed the ends on the shawl:

Very attractive finish to the shawl. Love these shawls!

What do you think? Does the celtic knot show up very much in the DK wt Felted Tweed?

Well, actually looking at the photo, I think it does. but in real life not so much.

Working on the fingerless mittens in Rowan Felted Tweed.

Several selected this yarn for their class projects. I’ve worked the first mitten almost to the bind off point. Love the yarn but disappointed with the color I guess. I picked a light shade thinking the celtic knot on the back of the hand would show up well but it doesn’t really. Maybe after I block it. Will post a photo in the next blog so you can tell me what you think.

Have you gotten all your shopping done? My lists are still growing. I never was one to get it done over the summer and early fall. It turns into a shop until I drop day or two, many orders on line, and then Christmas is here. Between knitting samples for the shop and the various retreats we have, there hasn’t been anytime this fall to knit gifts. Of course there are several baby blankets in the works and Christmas stockings that have a definite deadline. I’m looking forward to some down time to concentrate on these and get a few more projects completed. What are you working on? Are your gifts all finished and ready to send on their way?

Finished the cowl that I started before Thanksgiving with the Rowan Lima and the Fern lace cowl pattern. The photo doesn’t do it justice. The Lima is incredibly soft and warm as you would expect an alpaca yarn to be.